{"id":6277,"date":"2008-01-14T17:14:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/squeezebox-duet.html"},"modified":"2008-01-14T17:14:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T17:14:45","slug":"squeezebox-duet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/squeezebox-duet.html","title":{"rendered":"Squeezebox Duet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/images\/squeezebox-duet-remote-control.jpg\" \/>You probably know I spent some time thinking about how best to connect my computer system to my stereo and I ended up with a solution that is not perfect but at least I can listen my phone&#8217;s music collection through speakers worthy of a home stereo system. The way I did this was with a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/sharper-image-bluetooth-speakers.html\">bluetooth speakers<\/a> from Sharper Image and this cost me about $100 to pull off.<\/p>\n<p>If I had decided to spend more money I could have gone with products from Squeezebox. I have decided not to do this right now but if I were to blow a good deal of money on a solution to connect my computer home stereo system it would likely buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/mp3-players-digital-audio\/logitech-squeezebox-duet.asp\">Squeezebox Duet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This system uses an iPod like controller which gives you the ability to control music throughout the home.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Keating <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/tom-keating\/mp3-players-digital-audio\/logitech-squeezebox-duet.asp\">wrote <\/a>about this new product a week back or so and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/01\/14\/squeezebox-duet-is-even-more-feature-filled-on-second-glance\/\">engadget <\/a>is saying the controller is even better than the specs originally led us to believe.<\/p>\n<p>The remote includes Flickr support, a built-in speaker and headphone jack, SD card slot, IR transmitter and 3-axis accelerometer which could theoretically be used as a video game controller or to control music with various gestures of your hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably know I spent some time thinking about how best to connect my computer system to my stereo and I ended up with a solution that is not perfect but at least I can listen my phone&#8217;s music collection through speakers worthy of a home stereo system. The way I did this was with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,160,199,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}